The theme of the 2023 summit is: “BRICS and Africa: Partnership for Mutually Accelerated Growth, Sustainable Development and Inclusive Multilateralism.” As it did when it hosted the BRICS Summit in 2018 and 2013, South Africa will include an outreach programme which will be attended by many Afr.
US would probably have cancelled duty-free trade privileges if Vladimir Putin decided to attend the BRICS Summit in August and South Africa refused to arrest the Russian leader under an International Criminal Court warrant of arrest issued in March.
President Cyril Ramaphosa cited government’s problems with executing an arrest warrant for Russian head of State Vladimir Putin that is party to a war for which it’s trying to broker peace.